Question

The inscription “It is improper to boil a head here” appears in a Berenike shrine named for these animals, where these animals were ritually decapitated. The inability to easily raise these (-5[1])animals in captivity led priests to scam peasants using rag bundles made to resemble their mummified remains; those remains, along with ibises, were stacked in clay pots found inside the Saqqaran catacombs. The serekh (-5[1])is typically surmounted by this animal whose head tops the intestine-containing (*) canopic jar guarded by Serqet, (-5[1])which represents (-5[1])Qebehsenuef (keh-beh-seh-NOO-eff). The city of Nekhen, or Hierakonpolis, is alternatively named for this animal that is (-5[1])depicted binding a foe’s head above a set of papyrus plants on the Narmer Palette. A god most commonly depicted with this animal’s head rides the solar barque across the sky. For 10 points, name this sacred animal of (10[1])Horus. (10[2]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: falcons [accept hawks; accept Horus falcon; prompt on birds of prey]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Davis JohnsonPurdue BVanderbilt30-5
Ben Koberlein Notre Dame ANotre Dame B64-5
Andrew WangIllinois AChicago B80-5
Matt SchiavonePurdue AIndiana82-5
Akshar GoyalIllinois BChicago A98-5
Christopher JosephNotre Dame BNotre Dame A13710
Aden SunChicago AIllinois B1380
Elizabeth BowlingIndianaPurdue A13810
Gideon KpurubuVanderbiltPurdue B13810

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2023 ARCADIA at UC BerkeleyPremiereY250%0%100%138.00
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton UniversityPremiereY3100%0%67%134.67
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont CollegesPremiereY1100%0%100%138.00
2023 ARCADIA at IndianaPremiereY560%0%100%137.67
2023 ARCADIA at RITPremiereY2100%0%100%138.00
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTLPremiereY3100%0%67%126.00